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				WILLIAM AND SARAH M. (FROST) HIXSON

	William Hixson, the eldest in a family of seven children, was born Aug. 22, 1833, in 
Ulster Co., N. Y.  His father, Virgil Hixson, was born in the same county in 1812 and died in 
1853.  The mother, whose maiden-name was Sarah ann Hasbrook, was born in 1813, and married Mr. 
Hixson in 1832.
	William Hixson, who had previously assisted on the home-farm of his parents, at the age 
of sixteen entered a store as a clerk, continuing four years.  He then worked for his mother 
until 1858, when he visited Michigan, remaining throught the summer, and going from here to La 
Porte Co., Ind.  While there he engaged in farm-work, was employed in the freight-office one 
year, and finally went to Colorado, where he remained until 1866, except one year spent on a 
prospecting trip in Montana.  Returning to New York in 1866, and remaining one year, he came 
thence to Michigan in 1867.  October 3d in the latter year he married Miss Sarah M. Frost, who 
was born in Danby township (where her father was an early settler and is now living) Dec. 1, 
1838.  Mr. and Mrs. Hixson are the parents of four children,--viz., Phebe S., born July 29, 1868;
Virgil J., born April 25, 1870; Sarah Ann, born March 3, 1877; Willie, born Sept. 9, 1878, died 
March 19, 1879.  In the summer after his marriage Mr. Hixson purchased eighty acres of land, a
small part of which had been cleared.  He has since added thirty acres to his original purchase, 
and has his farm under a good state of improvement.  Mr. Hixson and his wife are members of the 
Methodist Church.  Politically Mr. Hixson is a Republican, and has been the recipient of numerous
favors in his township in the way of official positions.  He is a prominent member of the grange,
and a respected and influential citizen.



This biography is taken from "HISTORY OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, MICHIGAN" 
by John S. Schenck. Philadelphia:  D. W. Ensign & Co., 1881.  Page 222.  Danby.